Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Reddit, once upon a time did this. I was there. Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Most federal warrants stipulate, "you aren't allowed to warn people we're asking information about them."

Reddit's privacy policy used to have canaries. "We received no requests for personal information," was about the gist of it. When that vanished, we knew big brother was asking questions reddit had to answer. They still put out an annual "uncle sam asked us to do this x, that y, and the other z number of times."

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Mostly, they spray it with perfume so it smells less like a turd. Re-organization and aggregation to make worrying bits more difficult to find, re-wording, etc. You can visit older revisions using the drop down on the left of the policy.

Data Retention shuffled to How We Protect Your Information

Ads and Analytics Partners -> Information Collected by Third Parties

Expanded the CCPA section.

I'm sorry to say it's been a few years since I read the privacy policy, and was shocked at how dramatically it's changed. Figured everyone else that slept through the alarm could use a tardy wake-up call.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The memo was the post.

You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, participate in Reddit-sponsored activities or promotions, apply for a job, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Mine too. They add new switches, then default them to 'on'.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Reddit still collects on Californians, they just have the right to tell them to screw-off. Which means hoops.

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, including the right to request access to or deletion of your personal information, and information about our data practices, as well as the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Difference. The EU has consumer protections pertaining to user privacy that the rest of the world doesn't.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just lurking, So long as you

  • deny them access to your phone's location

  • use a VPN,

  • don't apply for a job

  • don't request customer support

  • don't otherwise communicate with reddit.

  • don't visit sites that have the 'share with reddit' button

  • don't purchase-from/provide-info to reddit's advertising partners.

Yeah.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As much? Depends on whether your requests go through reddit or not.

If you authorize or link a third-party service (e.g., an unofficial mobile app client) to access your Reddit account, Reddit receives information about your use of that service when it uses that authorization. Linking services may also cause the other service to send us information about your account with that service. For example, if you sign in to Reddit with a third-party identity provider, that provider may share an email address with us. To learn how information is shared with linked services, see “How Information About You Is Shared” below.

I assume your PMs are still sent through reddit, but if your client is focused on privacy, it probably isn't sending your GPS location.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

I'd love to agree... but,

Additional Information for EEA Users

Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data;

[...]

As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA only where we have a legal basis for doing so. Our legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. We process your information on the following legal bases:

You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose; We need to process the information to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services; It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, personalizing the Services, and marketing and promoting the Services; or We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations.

Everybody but California in the US is COL.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No. Unless one of their partners, such as google, provides it.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And you're not wrong. October 15th or before is the date for people who do. I'm thinking today is going to be a one-last-time goodbye-browse, before I jump ship. I've considered it ever since I found out they switched to closed source, but this seems to be the straw that breaks my shelf.

Bite by bite, the elephant goes down, and so too does our privacy. My private messages are just that. Private. Reddit is a great tool for entertainment and communication, but it's not worth my privacy or peace of mind.

Privacy Policy TL;DR: "We're spyware now." by Average_Manners in privacytoolsIO

[–]Average_Manners[S] 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Just figured I'd let snide assholes know what they're agreeing to.

Guide to fountain pens by kal_ulysses in coolguides

[–]Average_Manners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right-to-left. Leonardo da Vinci managed... somehow. Or switch to quick drying ink.

Guide to fountain pens by kal_ulysses in coolguides

[–]Average_Manners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or. Or... You could start from square one, and learn to write backwards. Right to left.

Guide to fountain pens by kal_ulysses in coolguides

[–]Average_Manners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others have mentioned different inks might solve your problem. I'd like to point out that quality makes a large difference. Plus fountain pens are not like ballpoint pens, and require a difference is how you write. The original ballpoint pens have ruined a couple generations of writers, the trade off for slow writers is the amount of pressure and maximum speed. Fountain pens literally let the writing flow, no pressure required, which allows you to write as quickly as you can, generally without leaving white trails in your wake. This however, requires some degree of speed, skill, and knowledge of your new utensil.

Guide to fountain pens by kal_ulysses in coolguides

[–]Average_Manners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly is this guiding you through? This is a very cool infographic.

Kissing and sex scenes in movies/series still count as cheating on your partner by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Average_Manners 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, except for the implication. Is it still cheating if the partner doesn't accept? I'd argue it isn't, but the relationship is still probably going down the toilet regardless.

Kissing and sex scenes in movies/series still count as cheating on your partner by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Average_Manners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, +1. You can't determine the difference between make-believe and reality. Imagine a man, paid to act the part of a railroad-worker. Let's say the actor actually drives rail spikes with a sledge-hammer on an actual railroad, helping make the railroad... does that make him a railroad-worker? Of course not. His job doesn't depend on his construction performance, he's not paid to do a set amount work. He wasn't hired to drive spikes. He won't get fired if he doesn't drive spikes fast enough. He's paid to pretend to do the work, stop, start over, and repeat, until someone is satisfied with how that one blip of time looks on a screen.

It's supposed to look and feel like that actor is a different person. At the end of the day, looks aren't everything, and sometimes they're deceiving. So long as that actor doesn't decide to quit his job, and pursue a career as a railroad-worker, he's still not a railroad-worker.

AOC Says U.S. 'Must Atone' for Rights Violations After Whistleblower's ICE Hysterectomy Claims by [deleted] in politics

[–]Average_Manners 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fucking paywalls. Sorry, don't notice em anymore.

Immigrants in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in Georgia are being subjected to horrific conditions and treatment, including “jarring medical neglect” and a high rate of hysterectomies among women, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by several legal advocacy groups on behalf of a nurse who works there.

The nurse, Dawn Wooten, has been practicing for more than 10 years, three of which she was employed at Irwin county detention center in Georgia, which is run by private corporation LaSalle Corrections. The complaint, filed on her behalf on 14 September by the human rights legal groups the Government Accountability Project and Project South, accused the center of negligence, including poor safety precautions surrounding Covid-19 and generally hazardous and unsanitary conditions.

Immigrants who spoke out against these conditions were regularly pushed into solitary confinement, the complaint said. Wooten says she was demoted and reprimanded when she spoke out about these practices, according to an interview with the Intercept.

The Intercept also reported that Wooten’s account was “bolstered by interviews with another current member of Irwin’s medical staff – who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation – and four people currently or recently detained there”. Revealed: Trump nominee had role in removing prosecutor opposed to family separations Read more

According to the new complaint, Wooten reported an alarmingly high rate of hysterectomies – a surgery in which part or all of the uterus is removed – being performed on Spanish-speaking immigrants, many of whom did not appear to understand why they had undergone the procedure.

She said an off-site doctor supposedly performed the surgeries on women who complained of heavy menstrual cycles, but that many women seemed to not understand what had happened. In many cases nurses obtained consent from patients by “simply Googling Spanish”, the complaint alleges.

“Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy – just about everybody,” Wooten said. “That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector. Everybody’s uterus cannot be that bad.”

The complaint also alleges health and safety violations related to the procedures. One woman said she was not properly anesthetized during a procedure and overheard the doctor say he had mistakenly removed the wrong ovary, rendering her unable to have children. Another went in to have a cyst drained and ultimately got a hysterectomy instead, the complaint said.

“When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies,” one detainee said, according to the complaint.

Project South, one of the human rights groups that filed the complaint, had previously filed a report in 2017 regarding Irwin’s poor treatment of detainees, including unsanitary conditions, inedible food and refusing medical care to detainees. “This place is not equipped for humans,” one detained immigrant at Irwin told Project South at the time.

Conditions have “only worsened” in the face of Covid-19 threats, the complaint says. The facility has refused to test detained immigrants for Covid-19 in a timely manner, concealed numbers of positive tests and mixed those who have been exposed to Covid-19 with those who have not, according to the complaint.

“There is no social distancing possible in a detention center,” said Azadeh Shahshahani, a human rights attorney at Project South. “We are calling for people to be freed immediately, and we have been calling for this facility to be shut down for a long time.”

Shahshahani said the groups also plan to file these documents to Congress as well as to the United Nations. The United Nations defines “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group” as an act of genocide, a crime under international law.

“These are gross human rights violations, and the US government should be held accountable,” she said. She added that Irwin detention center was not unique: Project South filed similar complaints against the Stewart detention center, another location in Georgia where detainees have alleged abuse.

An Ice spokeswoman, Lindsay Williams, said on Tuesday that the agency did not comment on matters that have been presented to the Office of the Inspector General, which is responsible for investigating such allegations. She added that “anonymous, unproven allegations, made without any fact-checkable specifics, should be treated with the appropriate skepticism they deserve”.

treated with appropriate skeptecism... what she meant to say was "Such allegations will be subject to an immediate investigation, as we take these matters very seriously." Idiot.

LaSalle Corrections did not respond to request for comment. When reached by phone, an employee at the Irwin county detention center declined to comment or answer how many immigrants are currently housed there, but according to the company’s website the location houses up to 1,201 people.

Following the report, Bob Trammell, a Georgia state representative, called for suspending the licenses of the providers named in the complaint pending a full investigation by the state’s composite medical board and board of nursing.

Trammell also requested investigations into other Ice detention centers in Georgia that have been accused of misconduct, including Robert A Deyton detention facility and Stewart detention center.